A lot of my bugs are conceptual oversights

This is in part a war story.

We've written our own system to handle deploying spares on our ZFSfileservers . One of the decisionswe made was how much activity to have the system start at once,because we already knew that trying to resilver too many mirrorsat once killed performance for everyone. What we decided was thatwe only wanted one resilver to happen at once and further that wewould abort any ZFS scrubs that were in progress if we needed toactivate a spare, because getting a mirror back


足夠了

在香港購物,不可能總是買得到最便宜的,例如三十元一條褲已經非常便宜了,不過經常都會發現只要付了錢,在下一條街便會找到有人賣二十八元一條。一心以精明消費作為起點和目標,貪平,誰知還有更平。後悔?自責?這

Don't

In my mentor's blog, he discussed why we should not lay down written rule "Do Not Do Thing X," such as "do not kill your patient," "do not chop off your patient's head," "do not use four-letter words in front of your patient - and being heard!"

And so on. Imagine a manual for doctors or adults with an endless, often ghoulish, list of "don'ts."

With a creature as complex as grown-

面對弱者的時候


看張經緯導演的紀錄片 《歌舞昇平》,講述香港繁華之外,幾個靠政府綜緩維持下去的家庭如何面對生活的困境,剖析這些弱勢社群為什麼會走到這一步,日後的路,又可以如何走下去。紀錄片拍得平實,但選在農曆新年前後,


Planning for a Wedding...

Crucifix - Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
...is involved, to say the least.

It's just a few days until the 'big' day, when Natalie and I will become 'Mr. and Mrs. Geerling,' and I'm excited! It's been a thrilling year, and though things can be stressful (for both parties) at times, it's all worth it. I will get to share my entire life with one of God's most beautiful daughters, and someday (God-willing)


國慶前頹想…..

非常之唔明白,為什麼孫明揚說現在不是小班教學的時機,我以前讀書39人一班,20人一班不過份呀,教師資源又擺在那里,創造就業又加強了師生溝通學術交流,用同樣的資助做出更好的效果...外國就是這樣呀,什麼

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台北之旅‧台北故事館之電影篇

這次到台北旅行, 特別留意有關電影的東西. 我很幸運 (又或者是撞彩), 沒有計劃過便闖入台北故事館, 卻發現意想不到的驚喜. (我原以為, 在台灣再看不到台語電影的文物了...)



台語電影《流浪到台北》(1966)
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Birthday

It's almost instinctive – you count the number of candles on the birthday cake, and you start to gauge the age of its owner.

Which makes perfect sense. I should have forty on mine yesterday. With time, I learn to tell my friends that chronological age has nothing to do with one's real age. During the lunch conversation yesterday, my friend didn't believe that I remain young, and then looked me straight at a scar on my face.

Before she asked, I knew she

iPhone

This is probably the most hi-tech product I have ever invested in my life.

All along I considered my cell's only purpose as the phone itself (or proably an alarm too), so, despite all the heat around new mobiles, I remained an insulator in changing my old nokia phone.

But these weeks I see the point.

One boring day in paediatric surgery team, we are invited (or you can call it summoned ) to join the team surgery in the operation theatre. Well, I

運氣?

今日幾乎一整天都花在寫一個報告上,是替某哲學期刊評審一篇論文。明天是交報告限期,可是,我最近忙得要命,到兩三天前方騰出時間看那篇論文,今天才寫報告。本來過限期一兩天是等閒事,但我就是有這份近乎病態的執